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Fireworks in Cirencester will be a sickening display

1:45pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

I WAS most disgusted to read in the Standard (May 10) that there is to be a firework display in the Abbey Grounds, above the lake that is home to numerous wildlife, to celebrate the Queens Diamond Jubilee. I have no interest whatsoever in the Jubilee so I was unaware of this sickening display and all of the other events planned.

This is not a case of bureaucrats ‘dotting Is and crossing Ts'

1:43pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

I WAS dismayed to read your comment section on Thursday, May 10, which implied that Cotswold District Council was making petty objections against Cirencester Town Council's plans to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. It also alleged that we had failed to cooperate and communicate sufficiently with the organisers.

I take issue with your car parking comments

1:42pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

AS A member of the newly formed Cirencester Parking partnership, I take issue with the comments made by Gerald Wilkinson in his letter to the Standard which was published on May 3 - Town needs better parking.

Abbey Grounds swans at risk of firework display

1:41pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

AFTER reading today's Standard about the reaction over some of the arrangements for the planned event, I feel that I must clarify the legal situation regarding the swans and other birds on the lake and living in Cirencester Park.

Someone has a shortage of money and cannot complete contracts

1:37pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

COULD I possibly clear up a couple of misunderstandings from the excellent article the other week about entertainment at the Corn Hall.

Jubilee events in Cirencester will disturb nesting birds

1:39pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

WHILE reading several articles and the leaflet telling us of the celebrations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, I note we are going to have yet another horrendous firework display, once again in the Abbey Grounds.

District council stance on prayers should be applauded

1:34pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

HAVING recently retired to the Cotswolds, may I take the opportunity to applaud the District Council for their proposal to move prayers to a more dignified and Christian setting in accordance with the teachings of the Bible.

Town needs better parking

4:24pm Wednesday 2nd May 2012

ON APRIL 1 every year I enjoy the articles in The Times on April Fool's Day, this year though Cotswold District Council beat them to the post with their press release dated 13 October 2011 stating that all pay and display machines would from April Fool's Day be solar powered, pay by phone, take debit and credit cards and cash - so where are they? What have the officers been doing? As a retired parking consultant I know it does not take six months to change machines.

Stop growing calls menace

4:26pm Wednesday 2nd May 2012

CAN nothing be done about the proliferation of unwanted telephone calls which occur mostly during the lunchtime period or in the early evening. These would appear to be directed at the elderly, the number presumably being obtained via the local telephone directory.

Sources show true facts

4:26pm Wednesday 2nd May 2012

ALL scientific study requires data sources be revealed, see the bibliography at the end of any scientific paper. Journalists have sources that are not revealed but whose knowledge of the subject is accepted. Using institutions or names, is not ‘cherry picking’ but verifying the source. The University of East Anglia, in ‘Climategate’ required a ‘Freedom of Information’ request to reveal data sources for peer group analysis of massaged climate data. This from a publicly funded body! Einstein’s theory of relativity uses the speed of light as a constant, never to be broken. 99.99 per cent of all scientists agree but it does not stop them challenging it. No conspiracy theory. In Al Gore’s (there I go, cherry picking) film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, the High Court ruled that the film contained nine errors so serious that the schools must be issued with corrections. The disappearance of Himalayan glaciers, in 30 years, used by the IPCC without verification, was totally flawed and also forgot that in the Karakoram region, the glaciers are increasing in length. The Indian professor who wrote it had received a government grant of £137,000. Three final points. Firstly, what is the main greenhouse gas? Water Vapour NOT CO2. Secondly, The Times Atlas, once an accurate data source stated that 15 per cent of the Greenland Ice Cap had disappeared. In fact it is 0.1 per cent. (The Atlas has still been released). Thirdly, according to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, DECC, a megawatt hour of electricity produced from conventional sources of gas costs £55, from an offshore wind farm £150. I am still willing to openly debate all my sources of data.